Euphony
Euphony is the use of smooth, pleasant-sounding language in a poem. Poets create it through soft consonants, flowing vowels, and an easy, musical arrangement of words and stresses so the line feels agreeable to the ear.
It often depends on context: sounds that seem rough in one line may feel gentle when blended with surrounding words and the poem's overall rhythm.
Example
Silver leaves move low in the moonlit grove,
soft winds hum through the white, wide field of clover.
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Related Definitions
[n] any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes"
Related Terms
accord, accordance, attune, attunement, balance, beauty, chime, chiming, concentus, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy, consort, diapason, equilibrium, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, measure, measuredness, mon